The Austro-Hungarian thoroughbred 757 



not have had the space to permit its publication entire. The breeders of Austria and 

 Hungary are given a degree of assistance by the Government which is wholly lack- 

 ing in America and England. Some day the American people will awaken to the 

 necessity of national breeding farms for cavalry remounts. 



I have pondered so much on this matter of breeding cavalry horses by the Federal 

 Government, and upon its general importance to the nation at large, that I actually 

 sent an advance proof sheet of the chapter relating to that subject to the President of 

 the United States about a month ago. Mr. Roosevelt has been a cavalry officer in 

 the national armies himself, and although I never saw him but once and have no per- 

 sonal acquaintance with him whatever, I am confident he will give the subject the bene- 

 fit of a thorough reading and a mature consideration, whenever he can get around to 

 it. Just at present, he is like his sylphlike predecessor, Mr. Cleveland, and "has a 

 Congress on his hands," after which he may find time to look it up at his leisure. That 

 he will take some definite step in that direction, on however a small scale, I am con- 

 fident for he is a fine rider and naturally has a deeply-rooted love for a good horse. 

 He can thank his life in the saddle, in the wilds of Montana, for the glow of ruddy 

 health which pervades his expressive countenance ; and I have no fear but that 

 the subject will receive a fair consideration at the proper time. 



